What's the difference between miniature and minikin?

Miniature


Definition:

  • (v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
  • (v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
  • (v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
  • (v.) A particular feature or trait.
  • (a.) Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
  • (v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (2) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
  • (3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
  • (4) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
  • (5) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
  • (6) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
  • (7) In addition, some have become extremely miniaturized.
  • (8) Extracellular recordings of miniature end-plate potentials in frog muscle showed that stimulation in the presence of MECh caused the time constant of the exponential decay of the m.e.p.p.s.
  • (9) The male adult Shiba goat, a miniature Japanese native goat, was used.
  • (10) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
  • (11) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
  • (12) An increase in the activity of ornithine decarboxylase was observed in mixed lymphocyte cultures from genetically defined, major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-nonidentical miniature swine as early as 18 hr after plating.
  • (13) The odds that uroliths submitted for analysis were composed of calcium oxalate was 2 times greater for Miniature Schnauzers than for dogs of other breeds (95% confidence interval = 1.6 to 2.4).
  • (14) Undistorted ventricular pressure wave form was obtained from a miniature transducer implanted in the left ventricular cavity.
  • (15) An ex vivo gastric chamber model based on miniature swine was used.
  • (16) Although some of the features of the TTE-RAS data base were not satisfactory, we consider this new miniaturized system to be a very valuable tool for the rapid identification of the most frequently isolated opportunistic bacteria.
  • (17) The retina was maintained in a nearly physiological state in a miniature "heart-lung" apparatus.
  • (18) A prototype system, termed an acoustic plethysmograph, was built and used to measure the volume of newborn miniature pigs.
  • (19) The intrinsic retinal vasculature of the miniature pig also has numerous characteristics in common with the human retina with regard to the extent of the vascular bed, the size of the blood vessels and the presence of radial peridiscal capillaries.
  • (20) The authors compared a group of 10 children operated by using this miniature apparatus with a control group of 20 children where the standard set up was used.

Minikin


Definition:

  • (n.) A little darling; a favorite; a minion.
  • (n.) A little pin.
  • (a.) Small; diminutive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Link series TMS Minuta, TMS Minikin, and TMS Minim pins were tested; Minim pins were tested at various lengths.
  • (2) Minim and Regular pins (0.023- and 0.031-inch diameters, respectively) caused more injury than Minikin pins.
  • (3) Minuta and Minikin pins are removed with only a small amount of force and should be used only when clinical prudence requires a small pin.
  • (4) Minikin pins (0.019-inch diameter) caused the least damage, in terms of both degree and frequency.
  • (5) The optimum and safe interpin distance using Minikin pins suggested by this study is 3 mm.
  • (6) Minuta and Minikin pins are removed with only a small amount of force and should be used only when clinical prudence requires a small pin; and when used, the strongest possible amalgam should be selected.
  • (7) TMS Minuta, TMS Minikin, and TMS Minim pins were tested.

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